Improvement in wine-presses



ntd e tapes C. F. HARTMANN, 0F NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA Letters Patent No. 100,142,1Zated February 22,

IMPROVEMENT IN WINE-PRESSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part oi tue same To all whom Vit may concern:

Be it known that. I G. F. HARTMANN, of Nazareth, in the county of Northampton, and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented an improved Tine-Press; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of `this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the press;

Figure 2, a top View of the same.;

Figure 3, a transverse vertical section thereof, in a plane indicated by the. line t as, figs. l and 2.

Like let-ters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The object of my invention is to produce an'improved press, particul-.uly for making grape wine, and

also well adapted for making wines from other fruits, including cider, whereby not only the general advantages of convenience and e. pcdition are secured in a 'superior' manner, but especially the juice is expressed very-quickly after the crushing ofl the fruit, and with the least possible exposure to the air, so that by restraining the oxygenation of the juice in the pulp, a superior quality ot' wire is obtained and less sugar is required. Other advantages of simplicity of .construc-y tion, being` easily taken apart to clean, and dispensing with metal as a material, if desired, are kept in view.

In the accompanying drawings- Let A represent a suitable base of any desired dimensions;

B, the 'crushing apparatus, situated upon one end of the base; and

(l, the press-bok, situa-ted on the other end of the:

base and close to the crushing apparatus.

The crushing apparatus B maybe-constructed as represented in the drawings; but, as I claim 'no novelty therein, particular description thereof is unnecessary. Yet, in order to conduct the juice and pulp as quickly as possible to the press without exposure to' the air and in the most convenieutway, a sulijciently inclined spoilt, b, conveys the same at once from the Crusher into the press-box at one'side thereof.

"z'lhe press-box C has its sides c c all joined permanently together, which rest upon a bottom, 1), projecting from beneath them, and are fastened thereon .by hooks and eyes f j, or equivalent means, so that they can be readily separated therefrom to get free access to all the interior of the box.

The box, thus joined together, slides freely upon I or otf the.' base A, and, when in position thereon, it

Areceives thecrushe-speut brin a'notch of or over one side v v l Inside of the press-box sides c c are removable grateboards or linings g g g g, formetl'with vertical slats or bars, with slots or spaces between them, wider at the outer surface Aof the grates, next to the interior surfaces ofthe sides of the press-box, than at their inner surface, so that the expressed juice can have a free passage downward while the pulp is retained inside.VV

Illhe grates are removable, so that they .may be easily cleaned as well as the box around them.

Though such grates have been before used, I employ iu connection wit-l1 them an improved construction of the. press bottom l), in which I form 4grooves or channels al d near its edges in its upper surface, so

vsituated as to be directly under the grates and under the inne1edges of the sides yc cof the box, but neither communicating with the outside nor-with the-inside of the grate-lined box, whereby the juice is kept from contact with the air, and the pulp ot' the fruit is 'exofthe gra-tes and sustain them above the said grooves or channels.

The follower Fis attached to the lower end of a screw, t, which turns in a nut, fn, of a standard or arch beariug,:a, extending upward from the base A, substantially'r as represented.

This arch is of sutticient' height and the screw i is of suti'icent length to enable the follower to V,he raised entirely above the press-box for the removal of the press-box, and above the spout b of the crushing apparatus, so that when not-pressing itl can quickly be elevated without removing out of the Way ofthe direct introduction of the crushed or ground fruit from the said crushing apparatus, and as soon as the-press-box is full the follower is iunnediately brought down into action for expressing the juice therefrom. The raised follower .is represented by dotted lines in fig. 3.

NVhat I claim as myinveution, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

the sides of lhe construction and arrangementof the bottom' D, with its grooves or channels 1l d, situated directly under the grates y y, vand removable block or bed l, projecting partially over said grooves and sustaining the grates in combination therewith, substantially as hei-ein set forth. l

. C. F. HARTMANN., Witnesses:

UumsrN. D. Busse, BENJAMIN .l. RAUUH. 

